RE: NeXTSTEP Re: SIMSON SAYS: Copyright and wrongs

Mark Baker (distobj@acm.org)
Fri, 26 Feb 1999 09:38:18 -0500


>You know, this is another little peeve of mine. I have a Newton 130. I
>don't use it much because, well, I'm just not a PDA sort of guy. I
>pretty much can get by with my Nokia 6190. Anyway, back to my peeve.
>I'm looking at the Palm and it has 1/3 the features of the Newton 130.
>It doesn't really seem any faster, and it's interface isn't near as
>nice as the Newtons. Yet, people are tossing their Newtons out by the
>basketful and buying Palms. I don't get it.

Price-point, form-factor, third-party software. Check and mate.

MB (still a happy MP2K owner)